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competed at the

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. Greek athletes have competed in every

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. Of the five nations that have been to every Summer Games (the others being

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and

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), Greece was the only one to compete under its national flag at Moscow, as the other five and several other nations competed under the Olympic flag (

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flew the flag of the New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association) in protest of the USSR's involvement in the

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Medalists

Gold

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– Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Featherweight

Bronze

* Georgios Khatziioannidis – Wrestling, Men's freestyle Featherweight * Tasos Boudouris, Tasos Gavrilis and Aristidis Rapanakis – Sailing, Men's Soling Team Competition

Results by event

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Men's 100 metres *

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:* Heat – 10.70 :* Quarterfinals – 10.62 (→ did not advance) Men's 200 metres * Nikolaos Angelopoulos :* Heat – 21.98 (→ did not advance) Men's Marathon * Michael Koussis :* Final – 2:18:02 (→ 20th place) Men's 20 km Walk * Aristidis Karageorgos :* Final – 1:36:53.4 (→ 15th place) Men's 50 km Walk * Aristidis Karageorgos :* Final – 4:24:36 (→ 12th place) Men's Long Jump *

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:* Qualification – 7.74 m (→ did not advance) Women's Long Jump * Maroula Lambrou :* Qualifying Round – 6.37 m (→ did not advance, 15th place) Women's Javelin Throw *

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:* Qualification – no mark (→ did not advance)

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Men's Team Competition

* Preliminary Round (Group A) :* Lost to Netherlands (7–8) :* Lost to Romania (4–6) :* Lost to Hungary (5–8) * Final Round (Group B) :* Defeated Sweden (9–5) :* Defeated Bulgaria (6–4) :* Lost to Australia (2–4) :* Lost to Italy (3–4) :* Lost to Romania (8–11) → 10th place * Team Roster :* Ioannis Vossos :* Thomas Karalogos :* Sotirios Stathakis :* Spyros Kapralos :* Kiriakos Giannopoulos :* Aris Kefalogiannis :* Ioannis Garifallos :* Andreas Gounas :*

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:* Markellos Sitarenios :* Ioannis Giannouris

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Heavyweight (100–110 kg) *

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Bantamweight (–56 kg) * Ioannis-Sidiropoulos Flyweight (–52 kg) *

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Middle Heavyweight (82.5–90 kg) *

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Lightweight (60–67.5 kg) *

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Greco-Roman Light-Heavyweight (82–90 kg) *

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Greco-Roman Heavyweight (90–100 kg) *

Greco-Roman Flyweight (48–52 kg) * Charalambos Cholidis Freestyle Featherweight (57–62 kg) * Georgios Khatziioannidis – Bronze Medal Greco-Roman Featherweight (57–62 kg) *

– Gold Medal

Sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, Windsurfing, windsurfer, or Kitesurfing, kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (Land sa ...

Triplehanded Keelboat * Aristidis Rapanakis – Bronze Medal * Anastasios Gavrilis – Bronze Medal * Tasos Bountouris – Bronze Medal Singlehanded Dinghy (Finn Class) * Ilias Khatzipavlis

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Mixed Skeet * Petros Pappas * Rodolfos Georgios-Alexakosalso competed at the

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Mixed 50m Rifle, Prone * Athanasios Papageorgiou

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Coxless Pairs * Georgios Kourkoumbas *

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Single Sculls *

Kostas Kontomanolis Konstatinos Kontomanolis (Κωνσταντίνος "Κώστας" Κοντομανώλης, born 25 August 1957) is a Greek rower. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the ...

References

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International Olympic Committee results database

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